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David Paris, acting dean of the faculty at Hamilton College, announced the appointment of new faculty for the 2000-2001 academic year, including 13 tenure track appointments, 22 visiting professors and 27 others. New tenure track appointments include:

Yael Aronoff, instructor in government. Aronoff earned a master's and Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University, and a bachelor's degree from Princeton University. She has written a chapter about Israeli Prime Ministers in a forthcoming book, Profiling Political Leaders and Analysis of Political Leadership: Methods and Cross-Cultural Applications, and had an op-ed published in the Washington Post. Aronoff was formerly a teaching fellow in political science at Columbia. She was a member of the Institute of War and Peace Studies Student Advisory Committee and participated in a Ford Foundation workshop on Research Methods for Conducting Research on the Developing World. She also participated in the International Society for Political Psychology's 22nd Annual Meeting, where she chaired a panel, Political Psychology of Contemporary Military Situations. Aronoff also served in the Pentagon's Office of Humanitarian and Refugee Affairs under the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and was a Jacob K. Javits Fellow for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Jennifer Borton, assistant professor of psychology. Borton came to Hamilton in 1998 as a visiting assistant professor of psychology. She earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D from the University of Minnesota. She was previously a visiting assistant professor in psychology at Middlebury College. Her research interests include the Self, particularly self-esteem and self-esteem maintenance; thought suppression; help-seeking behavior and applied social psychology. Borton is a member of the American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society and Society for Personality and Social Psychology. She has presented professional papers at the Midwestern Psychological Association and the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society.

Mark Cryer, assistant professor of theatre and dance. Cryer earned a master of fine arts in acting from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow, Scotland. He studied Shakespeare at the Royal Academy of Art and theater at the University of Minnesota. He taught acting courses at Cornell University, and was an adjunct professor in the theater arts department at Hobart William Smith College. After Cryer completed military service with the U.S. Air Force, he worked with the Science Museum of Minnesota's resident acting company, and later was with the Children's Theatre Company. He has also acted with the Guthrie Theatre, where he taught acting, and later continued with Steppingstone Theater and Child's Play Theatre. Cryer was tour coordinator at Penumbra Theatre, where he stage managed his first show. He has done commercials for McDonald's, worked in industrial films for 3M and Northwest Airlines, and appeared in feature films Mighty Ducks 2, It Could Happen to You, and The Peace Maker. While at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, he acted in various plays including Othello, Two Gentlemen of Verona and Macbeth.

Ann Frechette, assistant professor of anthropology. A magna cum laude graduate of Hamilton in 1990, Frechette earned a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University. She has been a lecturer at the Museum of Cultural and Natural History at Harvard, and a lecturer in the department of anthropology at Brandeis University. Frechette has received numerous academic honors and awards, including the Cora Du Bois Fellowship for Dissertation Completion and the Mellon Dissertation Fellowship. Most recently Frechette has been a research associate for the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard, where she has been conducting research on the effects of economic liberalization on businesses in the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. She was also a Fulbright IIE Fellow and MacArthur Security Fellow in Kathmandu, Nepal, where she conducted field work. Frechette was organizer and chair of the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference held in March.

Kevin Grant, assistant professor of history. Grant joined the Hamilton faculty in 1997 as a visiting assistant professor of history. He earned a Ph.D. and bachelor's in history from the University of California at Berkeley, and a master's from the University of Chicago. He was the recipient of a Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, and a Fulbright Research Fellowship to Great Britain, and has presented papers at the American Historical Association annual meeting, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Westminster College, Cambridge University. He is working on a book manuscript, "A Civilised Savagery": British Humanitarian Politics and European Imperialism in Africa 1884-1926. Grant has also published book reviews in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History and International Bulletin of Missionary Research and another forthcoming in Victorian Studies. At Hamilton, Grant has taught Europe and its Empires c. 1500 to the Present; The British Empire, 1533-2000; Children in England; South Africa 1962-1994, and Cultures of Empire c. 1790-2000, with Professor Patricia O'Neill of the English Department.

Peter Hinks, assistant professor of history. Hinks recently completed work as a senior research fellow at the Gilder Lehr

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